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tmso
, January 17th, 2013 at 11:43 AM (952 Views)
Unlucky/Lucky 13: Will your luck hold-out in 2013?


The number 13 can mean different things to different people. In some cultures, the number is auspicious, heralding the blessings of the gods. In western culture, the opposite is true: you’re more likely to run afoul with the cosmos.

Whether unlucky or lucky, that number is significant.

I am looking for stories that feature the number 13. Whether that means your protagonist is 13 years old and has their luck turn around at a crucial moment in their lives, or maybe your story is set on a spaceship on a collision course with the thirteenth dimension; whatever the case may be, submit your story of ill or fair luck to be included in the SFFWorld.com forum member’s second annual, short-story anthology.

GUIDELINES

  • You must be a member of SFFWorld.com in good standing (no strikes) for up to three months prior to submitting your story
  • Science Fiction and/or Fantasy
  • No existing (i.e. previously published) characters (or parodies)
  • 2000-8000 words (firm)
  • Single-spaced paragraphs with no-space (just like single-space) between paragraphs. Please, tag your formatting (ex., [ center]text to be centered[ /center]). Use a standard font like Times New Roman or Arial, in 12 pt. Preferred format is Google Document, but we can handle just about anything. However, we suggest Word DOC or DOCX if you don’t use Google Documents. If all else fails, there’s always RTF format.


RIGHTS & COMPENSATION

I will take exclusive worldwide digital rights for 1 year, then non-exclusive worldwide digital rights for 1 more years. Payment is a flat $5 USD (paid via PayPal), plus an ebook copy of the anthology.

Deadline for submissions: September 13th, 2013
To submit a story, email your story directly to nilaewhite (at) gmail (dot) com.
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Updated January 18th, 2013 at 09:13 PM by tmso

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  1. NilsDesperandum's Avatar
    Hi Nila

    At the risk of sounding dumb (but if you don't ask, you don't get!) have you a small sample of acceptable text/paragraph spacing?

    I am definitely intending to submit something to you for this and I would prefer to get this kind of thing right first time so that I can focus on producing the best story I can for you!

    It might help others too?

    Thanks

    Nils
  2. tmso's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by NilsDesperandum
    Hi Nila

    At the risk of sounding dumb (but if you don't ask, you don't get!) have you a small sample of acceptable text/paragraph spacing?

    I am definitely intending to submit something to you for this and I would prefer to get this kind of thing right first time so that I can focus on producing the best story I can for you!

    It might help others too?

    Thanks

    Nils
    Hey Nils,

    Since I'll be distributing the entries to the judges via ePUB format, the least amount of formatting you do - the better. So, set your program to single spacing and (unlike what you would do for the forum) do not hit an extra return (or enter) after each paragraph. Allow everything to run all together. Likes this:

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    Yes, it looks ugly, I know, but it means I could generate a properly formatted ebook file.

    With that said, I'll accept whatever you all give me. :-)

    By the way, I hadn't meant to include this bit:
    We welcome and strongly encourage submissions with underrepresented main characters: characters of color, LGBTQ characters, and women characters.
    Though I do encourage that, I hadn't meant to include that line in my announcement (left over from a copy/paste thing).
  3. tmso's Avatar
    CM asked this question in the forum thread:
    Well, blast. Guess I have to rethink what I have in mind, since that seems to include my own previously published characters.

    (I'm half joking, since I suspect that it's just a case of poor phrasing.)
    Correct. By all means, if they are your own characters, go for it. But, no fan-fiction, please. :-)
  4. NilsDesperandum's Avatar
    Got it!

    Thanks!
  5. Wulfen's Avatar
    What, no royalties? ;P
  6. tmso's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Wulfen
    What, no royalties? ;P
    Well, since you had to mention it - no. To be honest, I'm not sure (at the 99 cent price point) whether we'll recoup the budget I've set for this year's anthology. ;-)

    If we do, then all proceeds will go towards increasing author payments for next year's anthology. My goal is to pay enough so that landing something in one of our anthologies will count towards
    SFWA's membership requirements.

    Someone asked about the exclusive and non-exclusive rights that I will be buying for those $5 (of my own money, by the way). The first (exclusive for one year), means that you give me exclusive rights to e-publish your story in this anthology. That means you can't go sell the piece somewhere else in that year. The second part (non-exclusive for one year after), means that you give me the right to e-publish (or print publish, those details will be in our contract) in that year (say I decide to print the anthology the second year, I can do that without having to go back to you and purchase more rights). Since it is non-exclusive for that second year, you can sell the story elsewhere or e-publish/publish yourself. Is that clear?
  7. Fung Koo's Avatar
    I'm having a hard time coming up with something for this. Everything I come up with is so cliche.

    At least there's lots of time. Out of curiosity, have there been any entries yet?
  8. norm's Avatar
    I've started a couple of things, no idea where the stories are going or if I'll follow them through to the end though.
  9. tmso's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Fung Koo
    I'm having a hard time coming up with something for this. Everything I come up with is so cliche.

    At least there's lots of time. Out of curiosity, have there been any entries yet?
    Sorry, Fung Koo, I missed your comment.

    We have only had one entry so far and it has been rejected.
  10. tmso's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by norm
    I've started a couple of things, no idea where the stories are going or if I'll follow them through to the end though.
    Sorry, norm and Kung Food. Everyone seems to be having trouble with this theme. I seemed to have picked a poor one for this year. I thought of a lot of possibilities when I first thought of it, but I guess it is too specific?

    Here's a story that I thought fit the theme really well:

    http://flashfictiononline.com/main/2...alisa-alering/